The funniest video...EVER

You have to watch this until the very end (especially the "Sphinxes"):

On a Lighter note

There are some very pretty evergreens on campus that have neat, robin's egg blue new growth:

And the grass is very green from all of the rain:

Here is my new phone...it is pretty amazing. I had the same one for 4 years, so this is quite an upgrade. Verizon had a great deal online, so this only cost $30:

Vocabulary....

Well, I've been pretty holed up in my room these past couple of days, trying to assure myself that I am solidly three or so chapters ahead in vocabulary. Here are a couple of pictures I sent to my church back in Austin. This is what my vocabulary looked like a couple of weeks ago:

Here I am bright-eyed and bushy tailed just one week into Greek:

This is what my vocabulary stack looks like tonight...I think I am about at 440-475 words. Yikes.

All of this, and we haven't even gotten to Participles or Third Declension (both will be this whole week). See you all on the other side!

Lazy Daze of Summer (yeah, right)

During class today, my giant of a professor (the illustrious Dr. John Nordling) decided to challenge two unwitting students to race him in declining a phrase:

He, of course, won:

This is where I hunker down in the afternoon to study vocabulary:

Not too bad, huh:

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Campus, round II:

Exterior of my dorm building (on the right):

Inside Kramer Chapel:

side of Walther Library:

Martin Luther Hall:

And, bizarrely, two of the five or so buzzards that perch on the side of the library:

I call these two Statler and Waldorf

Room complete.

This is my little corner where a lot of flash card quizzing gets done:

When I am doing homework (or posting to the blog), I usually do it at the desk:

The photo doesn't quite do justice to how bright and broad this rainbow was. Just out my window:

The benefits of the food co-op.
Fresh pears:

and strawberries:

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OCD?

You tell me. Here is a snapshot of my flashcard system. Each piece of blue painter's tape has a chapter number corresponding to the cards above it. This way, I can quickly grab the cards (which are bulldog clipped per chapter) and recite them in a systematic way.

This is a shot of poor Shikamiru. I like to toss him in the air and see if I can spout of the endings of a certain verb form I'm trying to learn (w, eis, ei, oman, ete, ousin, omai, n, etai, ometha, estha, ontai)

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